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> Pricing is now $5/$25 per million [input/output] tokens So it’s 1/3 the price of Opus 4.1… > [..] matches Sonnet 4.5’s best score on SWE-bench Verified, but
by jumploops 11mo ago
> Pricing is now $5/$25 per million [input/output] tokens
So it’s 1/3 the price of Opus 4.1…
> [..] matches Sonnet 4.5’s best score on SWE-bench Verified, but uses 76% fewer output tokens
…and potentially uses a lot less tokens?
Excited to stress test this in Claude Code, looks like a great model on paper!
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- jmkni 11mo ago> Pricing is now $5/$25 per million tokens For anyone else confused, it's input/output tokens $5 for 1million tokens in $25 for 1million tokens out
- mvdtnz 11mo agoWhat prevents these jokers from making their outputs ludicrously verbose to squeeze more out of you, given they charge 5x more for the end that they control? Already model outputs are overly verbose, and I can see this getting worse as they try to squeeze some margin. Especially given that many of the tools conveniently hide most of the output.
- WilcoKruijer 11mo agoYou would stop using their model and move to their competitors, presumably.
- jumploops 11mo agoThanks, updated to make more clear
- alach11 11mo agoThis is the biggest news of the announcement. Prior Opus models were strong, but the cost was a big limiter of usage. This price point still makes it a "premium" option, but isn't prohibitive. Also increasingly it's becoming important to look at token usage rather than just token cost. They say Opus 4.5 (with high reasoning) used 50% fewer tokens than Sonnet 4.5. So you get a higher score on SWE-bench verified, you pay more per token, but you use fewer tokens and overall pay less!